My Realization after Looking Inward Regarding Shen Yun Ticket Sales

(Clearwisdom.net) As in many parts of the world, practitioners in our area have been working hard to sell Shen Yun Performing Arts tickets. Recently our coordinator asked local practitioners to send forth righteous thoughts at the beginning of every hour to eliminate any interference surrounding ticket sales to help ensure sold out performances.

This weekend, I set aside seven hours to do this and repeatedly read Master's lectures on sending forth righteous thoughts in between each hour. Today I suddenly had a realization that I may have had a part in blocking local ticket sales.

Over the years, I believe that the practitioner in charge of working with a national ticket vendor has acted inappropriately and said many inappropriate things. Many practitioners in our local area have held similar views, and some have been more moved than others.

In "What is a Dafa Disciple" ("Fa Teaching Given at the 2011 New York Fa Conference"), Master said:

"When you are working together and experience friction, it is because of human attachments. That is part of one’s cultivation state and process, and absolutely not because someone is truly no good. A person’s good side can’t be seen anymore, as it has been separated. What you see will always be the side that has not been cultivated yet. But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t have a compassionate heart, or should look at people in rigid ways. I’ve said again and again that you cannot see a cultivator’s good side. That side is simply terrific, and has met the standard. And what does it mean to 'meet the standard'? It is the standard of a god. Whereas the part of him that hasn’t been successfully cultivated yet, that part is going to seem worse as it works its way up and gets closer to the surface. But, maybe that person has cultivated very well. I hope that you all cherish yourselves, cherish others, and cherish this environment that you have. Cherishing the path that you travel is cherishing yourselves."

Without my realizing it, I had built up resentment towards this practitioner. Reading the Fa, I realized that achieving our goal of sold out performances would be much more difficult to achieve if we practitioners held on to such petty things.

In fact, in my understanding, my resentment toward the other practitioner was, in turn, affecting the ticket vendor. In other words, the negative thoughts I had about the practitioner were manifesting as difficulties for the ticket vendor in selling tickets.

In "What is a Dafa Disciple" ("Fa Teaching Given at the 2011 New York Fa Conference"), Master said:

"Currently there are still some students who fall terribly short in terms of cooperating together. And not just short—it even goes so far as to sabotage one another. I will tell you, regardless of what your thinking is, anytime you serve to sabotage a Dafa disciple’s project or something that Dafa disciples should do, you are acting as a demon. It doesn’t matter that you may be thinking, 'I’m a Dafa disciple, and I have done a lot.' The old forces are nevertheless writing entries into your ledger, one by one."

In writing this and sharing it with fellow practitioners, I wish to publicly expose my negative thoughts that may have a role in blocking ticket sales. Shen Yun Performing Arts is the best show in the world and we Dafa disciples are so fortunate to be allowed to participate in promoting it. I feel that stopping even one person from seeing Shen Yun is a sin. Master has worked so hard to arrange each person's opportunity to see it and be saved.

Let us look within and eliminate those thoughts that can cause interference and cause us to fall short.

Heshi.